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Cruel Bloom: A Dark Post-Apocalyptic Romance

Cruel Bloom: A Dark Post-Apocalyptic Romance

Drake, Krista

Paperback

Series: The Petal Trade, Book 1

RomanceScience Fiction

ISBN13: 9798252576671
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 17 2026
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In the Purple Basin, flowers grow in irradiated kill zones. Their petals are both currency and medicine. Oh, and the price of harvesting them is measured in bodies.

I've spent two years running solo extractions into the deepest zones... the ones that keep leaching the color from my eyes and the sense from my head. My faction needs what I bring back. Nobody asks what it costs me to get it.

So when our leader brokers a deal with the enemy and tells me I'll be running a joint extraction into unmapped territory, I don't get a vote. That's bad enough. But then I find out they've paired me with a man I've spent two years hating across the trade routes.

Riddle is loud. He's cruel. And his mouth is a weapon he never stops firing.

When the adrenaline from nearly dying crashes into the worst decision of my life, I find out his mouth is just as precise on my body as it is in a fight. Every filthy word proves he's been studying me and cataloging every weakness.

Riddle has made it excruciatingly clear what I am to him: something to pin down, take apart, and walk away from when the extraction's over. But not his equal. Never that.

We'll see.

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